From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 1 08:56:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA21540 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 08:56:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [204.160.242.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA21529 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 08:56:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harlie.bfd.com (bastion.bfd.com [204.160.242.14]) by horst.bfd.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA18460; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 08:56:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 08:56:41 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" To: The Hermit Hacker cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remotely power cycle a machine...? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > Does anyone know of any way of doing a remote power cycle of a machine? Can't find our manuals, so I don't have the manufacturer or contact info, but we've got several boxes called TeleBoot 450's, which control up to 5 devices each. The manufacturer does make a smaller device as well. Basically, you hook up the teleboot to a phone line, and plug the device(s) into the teleboot. You then call the line, enter a 4 digit security code, and a single digit of which device to power cycle. The Teleboot then turns of that socket for aproximately 10 seconds. Supposedly, you can cascade several TeleBoots on a single phone line, but we haven't done that yet.